Applications-as-Code with Shipa
06/17/22 • 57 min
Bret is joined by Ravi Lachhman, Field CTO at Shipa, to discuss the basics of Shipa application and policy management, and show off the developer experience that Shipa brings to apps running on IaC and GitOps tools like ArgoCD, Crossplane, Terraform, Kubernetes, and more.
Shipa is focused on the layer above the infrastructure where application developers can avoid other Kubernetes manifest tools like Helm or Kustomize, and create a cleaner contract between what their application needs are and how the infrastructure provides them.
If you've done Kubernetes YAML long enough, you know that it can get quite complex and verbose, and it requires both infrastructure and developer roles or knowledge to fully configure it. So you kind of got to know both worlds. But Shipa wants to fit in the middle somewhere, not replacing the infrastructure tools like Terraform or Crossplane, but rather working on top of them, providing an easier way to describe your apps from a dev's point of view and how they work on top of your infrastructure. It focuses on the application requirements, not necessarily how those requirements are implemented. Streamed live on YouTube on April 14, 2022.
Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #166). Includes demos.
★Topics★
Shipa website
Shipa example
DevOps Days Atlanta
★Ravi Lachhman★
Ravi on Twitter
★Join my Community★
Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses
Chat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOps
Homepage bretfisher.com
You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!
Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.
Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.
Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box
Homepage bretfisher.com
Bret is joined by Ravi Lachhman, Field CTO at Shipa, to discuss the basics of Shipa application and policy management, and show off the developer experience that Shipa brings to apps running on IaC and GitOps tools like ArgoCD, Crossplane, Terraform, Kubernetes, and more.
Shipa is focused on the layer above the infrastructure where application developers can avoid other Kubernetes manifest tools like Helm or Kustomize, and create a cleaner contract between what their application needs are and how the infrastructure provides them.
If you've done Kubernetes YAML long enough, you know that it can get quite complex and verbose, and it requires both infrastructure and developer roles or knowledge to fully configure it. So you kind of got to know both worlds. But Shipa wants to fit in the middle somewhere, not replacing the infrastructure tools like Terraform or Crossplane, but rather working on top of them, providing an easier way to describe your apps from a dev's point of view and how they work on top of your infrastructure. It focuses on the application requirements, not necessarily how those requirements are implemented. Streamed live on YouTube on April 14, 2022.
Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #166). Includes demos.
★Topics★
Shipa website
Shipa example
DevOps Days Atlanta
★Ravi Lachhman★
Ravi on Twitter
★Join my Community★
Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses
Chat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOps
Homepage bretfisher.com
You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!
Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.
Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.
Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box
Homepage bretfisher.com
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Nomad Orchestration
Bret is joined by Erik Veld, Manager, Developer Advocacy at HashiCorp, the creators of Nomad. Nomad is an orchestrator like Kubernetes and Swarm but it has a unique set of features that make it an interesting alternative on multiple levels. It's known for having a much simpler infrastructure design than Kubernetes, and also having a stronger community and feature release cycle then Swarm. Erik talks about the basics of Nomad, the reason it was created and runs through some demos. Streamed live on YouTube April 7, 2022.
Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #165). Includes demos.
★Topics★
Nomad website
Nomad GitHub page
Tech-Nomadic, Run Your Software Anywhere (YouTube)
Managing DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters with Terraform (YouTube)
★Erik Veld★
Erik on Twitter
★Join my Community★
Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses
Chat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOps
Homepage bretfisher.com
You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!
Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.
Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.
Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box
Homepage bretfisher.com
Next Episode
Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices
Bret is joined by Rosemary Wang, a developer advocate at Hashi Corp. She recently finished a Manning book, titled Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and Practices. They discuss how infrastructure as code fits into DevOps and Gitops, and how you can get started with IaC and run over some important patterns, such as controlling versioning, IaC testing and managing costs.
Rosemary worked at ThoughtWorks previously, and it was interesting to hear her experiences on learning from senior engineering, and how pairing and other types of mentorship can help. Streamed live on YouTube on April 28, 2022.
Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #168).
★Topics★
Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and Practices, with examples in Python and Terraform
★Rosemary Wang★
Rosemary on Twitter
★Join my Community★
Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses
Chat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOps
Homepage bretfisher.com
You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!
Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.
Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.
Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box
Homepage bretfisher.com
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